Out of boredom Kadizzle made a round through the casino. The casino could just have vacuum cleaner nozzles that you stick in your pocket. You could press a button that indicates how fast you want to go broke. The total insanity of gambling in this country is amazing. In our home town people piss away about three thousand a week on the lottery, enough to finance a nice wellness center. At this casino fat guys get cheap food, and a nice chair to sit in and smoke while they are electronically robbed. The real beauty of an Indian casino is the fact that it is robbing the Indians. Most of the people in there are native Americans. One salvation is they do not have drinking. You have to be sober to lose your money, but so what. Fleecing the simple minded has always been an American industry. We have trickle down economics that is gambling on a massive scale. We give all the money to the top one percent and figure some is bound to fall out of their pockets. As a society we are poor by choice. It is not like we do not have enough of everything for everyone to live very well. There are plenty of resources in this country, but when you use them to built some insane edifice in Las Vegas what do you think will happen? Build a huge city that produces nothing but gambling debt in the desert. Waste all the electricity you can in the most inhospitable place on Earth? We are in misery by choice. Religion is the ultimate form of gambling. You buy in, and of course you never know when you are alive if you won or not. You pay dearly with the promise you will get a great prize of an afterlife. Meanwhile the Pope, or some preacher lives the life of luxury with the money you pay in. Religion gets people to believe in magic riches. You ask god for something. If you happen to get it god gets the credit, if you don't you don't blame god. It is just like gambling, you only remember when you win. The churches are just like casinos, they put up an elaborate magical building that cost a fortune, and let the pocket cleaning begin. Look at the crooked stump preachers that are building multi million dollar mansions and flying in their personal jets. Look at the new Mormon temple in Phoenix that blew millions to outdo the competitors.
What do religion and gambling have in common? Both are selling false hope. You buy the lottery ticket or say a prayer and now you think you have real hope things will change. If your roof leaks try using the $20 to fix it, or put the $20 in a slot machine, or give it to the church. Seems like the best bet is to go up on the roof with $20 worth of gookem and fix the roof. Now if you really want to gamble in somewhat of an intelligent fashion try the stock market. Had the gambler, or the religious guy put the same cash into the stock market he might actually have been way ahead today. Historically the stock market has proven to be a net winner. Even bonds have paid off over the long run, certainly more than gambling or praying.
The guy on the other side always does well. The casino owner wins, the preachers win, and you lose. What will you do with that million you will win next week. Oh, I forgot, you don't buy your ticket until it is at least 300 million. Yup, you really do not need just a million, that will solve non of your problems. Delusion sells well, and people love to hear and think what they want to.
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